Indie developer Far From Home has announced Forever Skies is leaving early access next month alongside its console debut.
Forever Skies is leaving early access on April 14th on Windows PC (via Steam) alongside its PlayStation 5 debut.
The airship survival game was originally released via early access back in June 2023. The game is debuting on PS5 as a “console debut exclusive”, and still has an Xbox version planned.
Here’s a rundown on the game, plus a new trailer:
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Features
- BUILD & CONTROL YOUR AIRSHIP – You will build and customize a high-tech airship. It will be your home, workshop, laboratory and more while flying above the surface of Earth. Control and steer it towards the ruins of our civilization and mysterious anomalies. Manage your airship hull and its integrity. Extract and gather resources to improve your airship and make it uniquely yours.
- UTILIZE SCIENCE TO SURVIVE – Your scientific know-how will allow you to build and operate different machines. Analyze scanned items and reverse engineer lost technology. Research new ways of obtaining food and resources, discover new tools, and increase the chance of your survival.
- SCAVENGE RUINED SKIES – Explore and extract resources from the ruins that were built up high to escape the dust. Surrounded by drifting debris caused by a strange anomaly, harvest it into raw materials to help you survive. Explore and discover the remains of our civilization. Find out what happened and why Earth evolved to a place where we lost control of our previous position at the top. Discover secrets of our past.
- DESCEND BELOW THE DUST – After descending below the dust, you will discover a strange new world, the planet’s surface that changed in our absence. Face evolved fauna and flora and hunt for viral pathogens to cure a mysterious illness threatening your family.
- RETURN TO EARTH – Forever Skies is an action-survival game taking place on Earth, which was devastated by a global ecological disaster. This event caused the surface of the planet to be covered in a colossal layer of toxic dust. You’re returning to our planet hundreds of years later – will you recognize our world?